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...train's lateness. An all-steel special train carrying retired Commander Savage and 250 Legion officials on a "goodwill" tour to Italy, had been due at the bombed spot in a few hours...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure to hungry newsgatherers...
Most precious of all the letters were the two in which Boswell had asked Margaret Montgomerie to marry him and in which she agreed to do so. Colonel Isham, chattering with excitement, displayed in an alley between boxes of steel, not ebony, the placid sentimentalities of two charming people. In this strange place he read aloud Boswell's "Read this in your own room and think as long as you please. Only let me have a positive answer as I am quite dependent on you. ... I would share a kingdom with you if I had it. . . ." Peggy, who later watched...
...plasterer's tools, in the University's campaign to amelio-rate the living conditions of the students. The process of renovation has been thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst...